Tomcat responds "404" to requests for the root document

[Mathias Kratzer, geändert vor 12 Jahren.]

Hi,

we have a Liferay 6.1-GA1 running on a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. I'm trying to find out why the bundled Tomcat 7.0.23 keeps returning status 404 on requests for http://<hostname>:8080/. In fact, the full response always looks like this:

**** STATUS ****
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

**** HEADER ****
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:09:44 GMT
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=C846FE2AD69C8A7F84747BFCCB08E801; Path=/; HttpOnly
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

**** CONTENT ****
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        <title></title>
        <meta content="1; url=/c;jsessionid=C846FE2AD69C8A7F84747BFCCB08E801" http-equiv="refresh">




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so if you visit the page with your browser the JavaScript redirect is performed, you are landing on http://<hostname>:8080/home, and everything looks fine. But if a monitoring script (such as Nagios' check_http) sends the request it just receives the error status and issues a warning, of course. How can I configure Tomcat to respond in a way that doesn't suggest any problems?

Thanks in advance
Mathias